Richard Hector wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 21:38 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> > I was thinking to let my firewall >> > run on a CF drive. The last one served for 10years, so ... >> >> Your firewall can probably run with near-0 writes (or even with exactly >> 0 writes), so your CF will easily last centuries. > > Especially if you can use a syslogd on another machine. > > Richard
thanks, I should take account of that. Now it's in "testing" and there is nothing special I did for the filesystem. I think I should make it write as less as possible. i.e. disable swap and move stuff to memory (ram disk or so). It was helpful discussion for me. regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

